Valve is making the geometry of all externally visible parts of the Steam Controller available under Creative Commons licensing. This means you can do as you wish with the little Darth Vader face that could, but you still have to get Valve’s permission if you want to make money off your creations.

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It’s a pretty cool move, and it continues Valve’s push toward letting users do whatever they damn well please with the Steam Controller. People have been tinkeringwith Valve’s versatile piece of PC tech sans a roadmap for quite some time, so I imagine they’re pretty pleased about this.

The hardware itself might not be for everybody, but you’ve gotta admire it on principle. It’ll be interesting to see what comes of this. Fingers crossed for a version that’s a bit easier on thumbs.

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